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I can&#8217;t tell you how often I hear things from engineers like, &#8220;Oh, we don&#8217;t have to do user testing. We&#8217;ve got metrics.&#8221; Of course, you can almost forgive them when the designers are busy saying things like, &#8220;Why would &#8230;
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Editor&#8217;s note: this post originally appeared on the author&#8217;s blog, Solve for Interesting. This lightly edited version is reprinted here with permission. In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline. It will contain everything weve &#8230;
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You Guys Realize the Apple Watch is Going to Flop, Right? &#8212; leaving aside the &#8220;guys&#8221; assumption of its readers, you can take this either as a list of the challenges Apple will inevitably overcome or bypass when they release &#8230;
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User Onboarding Teardowns &#8212; the UX of new users. (via Andy Baio) Microsoft&#8217;s Productivity Vision &#8212; always-on thinged-up Internet everywhere, with predictions and magic by the dozen. Machine Learning Done Wrong &#8212; When dealing with small amounts of data, its &#8230;
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Each week our design editors curate the most notable, interesting, and important material they come across. Below youll find their recent selections. You can get these and more in our weekly design newsletter. Tweet of the week Dear #UX designers &#8230;
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#NoEstimates &#8212; Allspaw also points out that the yearning to break the bonds of estimation is nothing newhes fond of quoting a passage from The Unwritten Laws of Engineering, a 1944 manual which says that engineers habitually try to dodge &#8230;
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At Strata + Hadoop World 2015 in San Jose last week, we ran an event for data-driven startups. This is the fourth year for the Startup Showcase, and its become a fixture of the conference. One of our early winners, &#8230;
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A long time ago (circa 1999) a creative director tried very hard to convince me how great working in print design was compared to web design. One afternoon before a big event for a Fortune 100 company, she showed me &#8230;
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I dont remember when I first came across topic models, but I do remember being an early proponent of them in industry. I came to appreciate how useful they were for exploring and navigating large amounts of unstructured text, and &#8230;
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awesomplete &#8212; MIT-licensed ultra lightweight, usable, beautiful autocomplete with zero dependencies in Javascript. How to Seize the Opportunities when Megatrends Collide &#8212; excuse the cheesy title, the chart from PwC showing pairwise combination of trends, is interesting. Adopting Microservices at &#8230;
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Editor&#8217;s note: Martin Charlier will present a session, Prototyping User Experiences for Connected Products, at the O&#8217;Reilly Solid Conference, June 23 to 25, 2015, in San Francisco. For more on the program and information on registration, visit the Solid website. &#8230;
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Editors note: This is an excerpt by Erin Rae Hoffer from our recent book Designing for Emerging Technologies, a collection of works by several authors and edited by Jon Follett. This excerpt is included in our curated collection of chapters &#8230;
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Remotely Bricking Cars (BoingBoing) &#8212; story from 2010 where an intruder illegally accessed Texas Auto Centers Web-based remote vehicle immobilization system and one by one began turning off their customers cars throughout the city. Beginning to Map the Human Epigenome &#8230;
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I constantly hear how enterprises are poor at innovation, bad at product development and unresponsive to business change. So itbegs the question, why do so many organizations get it wrong? And what are the key factors to consider when trying &#8230;
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Editor&#8217;s note: this is an advance excerpt from Chapter 1 of the forthcoming Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures by Matt Stine. This report examines how the cloud enables innovation and the changes an enterprise must consider when adopting cloud-native application &#8230;
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Wiki New Zealand &#8212; open data site, and check out the chart builder behind the scenes for importing the data. It&#8217;s magic. stenographer (Google) &#8212; open source packet dumper for capturing data during intrusions. Which GPU for Deep Learning? &#8212; &#8230;
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MIT Scientists and the Self-Assembling Chair (Wired) &#8212; using turbulence to randomise interactions, and pieces that connect when the random motions align. From the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT. Calaos &#8212; a free software project (GPLv3) that lets you control and &#8230;
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Swift is becoming the language of choice for more and more developers on iOS and OS X. It&#8217;s fast, simple, clean, and has a number of features that simply aren&#8217;t available to Objective-C programmers. While it isn&#8217;t a hard requirement &#8230;
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The Distributed Robotic Garden (MIT) &#8212; We consider plants, pots and robots to be systems with different levels of mobility, sensing, actuation, and autonomy. (via Robohub) CogniToys Leverages Watson&#8217;s Brain to Befriend, Teach Your Kids (IEEE) &#8212; Through the dino, &#8230;
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In this week&#8217;s Radar Podcast episode, OReillys Roger Magoulas chatted with Tricia Wang, a global tech ethnographer and co-founder of PL Data, about how qualitative and quantitative data need to work together, reframing &#8220;data-driven decision making,&#8221; and building the ideal &#8230;
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Experts from across the big data world came together for Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, CA, 2015. We&#8217;ve gathered insights from the event below. U.S. chief data scientist With a special recorded introduction from President Barack Obama, DJ &#8230;
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Editor&#8217;s note: this is an advance excerpt from Chapter 2 of the forthcoming Software Architecture Patterns by Mark Richards. This report looks at the patterns that define the basic characteristics and behavior of highly scalable and highly agile applications, and &#8230;
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